Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Strauss

This suit was instituted by appellees against appellant for damage occasioned by the failure to use diligence to ! produce and save oil from under 9.4 acres of land, and in permitting the oil to be i drained therefrom by operators on contiguous land or in the surrounding oil fields, and delay in drilling wells or a sufficient number, and for the abandonment of production of oil j from the land and the wells put down. The action is predicated upon two lease contracts and a contract between appellant and appellees and an assignment of two leases to appellant by appellee. July 27, 1918, N. C.…